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Couldn't Stevie Nicks just use her witchcraft to make Kamala Harris president already? There would've been more, but their darn cats kept walking across their keyboards. PSP might have stolen Linda Ronstadt's incredible talent as a singer, but she is not allowing it to keep her from speaking out on behalf of immigrants and I love that. If only we all could be as brave.

Frank Luntz is looking more and more like someone who lives "off the grid" in some cabin in the woods, with no indoor plumbing, and nothing to do all day except write diatribes against the government.

She's "settling for more." You can tell peeps like Jesse Watters want so badly to attack Kamala Harris for being yet one more Black woman who made Donald Trump look like dogshit, but even they are smart to know that when you cross that line, the game is over.

Martha Byrne remains in denial about her husband's culpability and it's sad.

Exactly. WOC always "bring it," because they know that nobody (including white women) has had their backs since the beginning. It annoys the heck out of me when certain people suggest that Kamala Harris can't put a sentence together. Number one, you don't get to be a D.A., a State Attorney General, a United States Senator OR Vice President by being incoherent; and number two, even on her most word salad-y day, Kamala Harris is still far less dangerous to our democracy than Mr. Concepts of a Plan.

It's also up there with, "Well, the number of COVID cases in this country would stop rising if people would just reporting them!" RFK Jr. has a worm in his brain, but Trump's brain has what the worm pooped out.

Just keep those white boy tears a-comin', fellas, lol!

I think Lynley was a lovely actress, but I cannot see her as Valene. I don't think her Val would've been as assured as JVA's was in the beginning (before the Lechowicks turned her into the village idiot, lol).

Never, EVER underestimate the power of a Black woman, lol!

Frankly, that's like giving credit to a father for paying child support. I'm not gonna pat people on their heads for doing what they're supposed to do.

Exactly. Those idiots are never going to vote for her, no matter what. They can pretend to be "undecided" all they want, but again, people are starting to catch on. Of COURSE they didn't fact-check her, because she actually had facts and logic on her side. All Trump has is what he heard Floyd the Barber discuss with Andy, Barney and Gomer Pyle at his barber shop.

That's true. But I'm also seeing more and more people in this country realizing that the establishment/mainstream media is hopelessly corrupt and therefore not to be trusted. That's why the MSM are so pissy right now: they've hit at Harris and Walz many times, and so far, nothing's landed, because people are slowly and gradually catching on.

I agree - and believe me, I've argued that exact point with her many times. But my mom is one of those if-it's-on-the-Internet-then-it-must-be-true types. You can't win with people like that, no matter how hard you try.

Honestly, those are the kind of folks who'd have trouble ordering from McDonald's. [!@#$%^&*] 'em.

Frankly, I had every confidence that Kamala Harris would emerge victorious in last night's debate. If I've learned anything from being around Black women all my life, it's that they know their [!@#$%^&*] and dare you to come for them. And even if it were true that immigrants are eating pets - AND IT IS NOT TRUE - what does that say about this country and our ability to feed every individual who lives here?

I hear that all the time even from my own mother, who has been brainwashed by propaganda videos on YouTube (a.k.a. the bane of my existence). How was your life better when Trump was president, I ask? We were almost wiped out by an epidemic, for God's sake! Typically, low-information voters say things like, "Gas and groceries were so much cheaper before Biden took office," without understanding that it's not the president who controls such matters but the CEOs and multi-billionaires whom their guy (Trump) helped out tremendously with his tax cuts. It's the same thing with Barack Obama. They accuse him of doing nothing during his administration except issue executive orders, not realizing that Congress forced his hand by being obstructionist in every way.

As they say on Election Night, "I've seen enough."

I don't think so, and I think any attempts to say he did - even with Melissa - is reaching. Frankly, I thought Lance and Melissa were too narcissistic to love anyone other than themselves. And poor Cole had to be the stupidest guy alive even to fall for her, too.

With some exceptions, "West Coast hires" can give you the extreme closeups, while "East Coast hires" can give you the pure, theatrical energy. It's not a knock on either group, however. It's just two different approaches toward the material.

I agree. Even losing the number-one slot to DYNASTY should have made Lorimar and CBS start thinking of some sort of exit strategy, because once a juggernaut like DALLAS loses its' position as the most-watched show on TV - not just on CBS, but on all of TV - it never reaches those heights again.

Remember, too, that he had a pretty good shot at becoming a regular on "Cheers" as Eddie LeBec until he badmouthed Rhea Perlman on the radio. He also was a regular during the second season of "Mork & Mindy," a season when both a timeslot change and cast overhaul caused M&M to drop out of the Nielsen Top 20 after finishing its' first season at #3, behind "Laverne & Shirley" and "Three's Company." Personally, I think KL missed a golden opportunity to go sorta meta and have Val develop "Capricorn Crude" into the kind of trashy miniseries that was really popular at that time. Imagine, for example, Val collaborating with the hack screenwriter who's been hired to co-write the teleplay and who wants (on orders from the producers or network) to make the miniseries even more salacious than the book; or the young, Pia Zadora-esque strumpet (maybe played by Kelli Maroney) who "shadows" Val in an attempt to portray her as accurately as possible.

Of course, there was a lot of junk airing on all three networks back then, but looking at that schedule, I'd say CBS's lineup probably was the least embarrassing, followed by NBC's. CBS, of course, was still giving its' mostly older, mostly conservative viewership what it wanted; while NBC was laying the final pieces of what would become the biggest night in TV (Thursdays); but ABC still appeared to be operating under the Fred Silverman mindset of giving audiences the least objectionable programming, regardless of quality. But that, too, would change a little bit in the latter half of the season, with the premiere of "Moonlighting," the first series on ABC - before "thirtysomething," "The Wonder Years" and "China Beach" - that could go toe-to-toe with NBC's more quality shows ("Hill Street Blues," "St. Elsewhere," etc). In retrospect, it probably hurt CBS not to have a prestigious, quality drama or comedy on their lineup at that time like the other two networks had. Their highest-rated show was MSW, which audiences loved from the start, but didn't exactly wow Madison Avenue or the critics.

In his own Archive of American Television interview, co-creator William Link suggests that Jean Stapleton was still mourning the recent loss of her husband, Bill Putch, and therefore wasn't up to taking on the lead in a new series. In any event, once she passed on the role, Link, Richard Levinson and Peter S. Fischer heard that Angela Lansbury was interested in working in television. Levinson and Link were fans of her stage work, but because she wasn't as well-known at the time in TV, they were afraid CBS's then-president Harvey Shepherd would pass on putting out feelers to her agent. Instead, Link says, Shepherd loved the idea and gave the three his blessing to reach out to her and see if she were interested. I agree. For sure, by the start of S2, the classic characterization of J.B. Fletcher as an everywoman was firmly in place. The humor in the stories, therefore, pivoted to the guest stars and recurring characters, with J.B. as the center of calm in the middle of all the mayhem. Such was the formula that MSW used for most of its' "golden age," through the 1990-91 season. Once Peter S. Fischer departed in 1991, and especially after Lansbury assumed control a year later, a lot of the folksy, quirky humor evaporated, with everyone (besides William Windom/Seth and occasionally Ron Masak/Mort) playing it straight like Lansbury. Unfortunately, this was also the period when the mysteries themselves became less challenging, so that, by 1994 or so, if you're still watching MSW, it's strictly for Lansbury. Same here. I'd watch the show occasionally with my mom, who is a big crime/mystery buff, but I wasn't a true fan until 2012, when Mama Khan and I would binge-watch it on Netflix as a way of getting our minds off my dad's unexpected passing. That's when I truly understood why millions around the world love it (and her) to this day.

I agree. It's not impossible for TV audiences to accept an actor as a new character after watching them for so long as another character, but it takes a lot of effort and a willingness on the actor's part to play against type. Betty White, for instance, went from playing the "happy homewrecker," Sue Ann Nivens, on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," to playing the resident dimwit, Rose Nylund, on "The Golden Girls," with a brief stopover as snobbish Ellen Harper Jackson on "Mama's Family" in between. But for the few Betty Whites in TV land who could transition like that, there were and are other actors who either kept playing variations of the same character, or who tried and tried and tried to shake off their most popular roles on TV and never could.

Say what you will about Maura West, but I've always appreciated the fact that she never phones in her performances. Same goes for her current GH castmates, Jane Elliot, Cynthia Watros and Laura Wright. Even when the writing for that foursome is [!@#$%^&*], they show up to work.